Show Notes
After their summer break, the u3a radio podcast team are back - with interviews with John Tucker from the Woodland Trust discussing how we can make a difference to the environment, a u3a member who lived in Aden in the 1960s, and Neville Lyons who discusses the first work computer - the Lyons Electric Office.
This is the final episode for two of our team members - Nick Bailey and Ela Watts. Their contribution to the podcast over the last three years has been enormous and they will be very missed.
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